If You Give a Mouse a Cookie....

Some of you might be familiar with this children's line of books, but if not, its about a mouse who at the begining asks for a cookie, that then makes him think of a glass of milk, that then reminds him of something in the fridge, etc, etc, etc. The jist of the story being that when he thinks of one thing, it leads to something completley different until finally at the end of the story, it all comes back around to eating a cookie! Well, lately, I feel like the mouse. I start thinking of one thing, that leads me to packing or sorting through something else, then in turn I'm now thinking of some new thing, that leads me to getting rid of or selling something else, etc, etc!! So last night at 11:45pm when I was taking a shower for the 1st time all day, I realized I was the mouse in the cookie book! I go from being sad when thinking of a thought we've shared in this house, to happy of thinking of some new opportunities that will come our way, back to sad again when I realize how much more of my house is left to pack up, to happy again when I think about all being together again Dec.15 snuggled in our little apartment, to sad again about leaving our nice, big house that the girls love with a great backyard, to happy again when thinking about our nice, new house we'll get again someday! And the story continues. I'm selling a lot of baby items and just so you know how the conversations in my head have been going lately, I'll replay this one for you: "I have to reply back to the lady who wants to come buy Hannah's rocking chair. O, and I need to check to see if I have anyone bidding on Hailee's crib bedding on ebay. I wonder if the bunk beds we ordered from ebay will ever get here and I really hope nothing is broken. Broken reminds me that I need to take out the 2 boxes of ornaments and put them somewhere special and safe, hmm, where would that be right now in our house? so we can take them with us so we can decorate the Christmas tree when we move to our aprt. Will the movers put the things that will go to storage like all the other Christmas decorations on the front of back of the moving truck? Will they unload us 1st to our apt. or the storage unit first? Storage reminds me of wheather or not I want to put some of the baby items in there or just sell it all? What if the items on Craigslist dont sell? Will I store them or give away to goodwill? Baby items make me sad b/c my girls arent babies anymore and its sad how fast they grow up. Will we ever have another baby? Will I use some of these items again? Surely we cant have a baby in the apartment so once 2012 rolls around and we're hopefully thinking of finding a home, will I even want a baby at that point? And "baby" brings me all the way back to the beginning of my origninal thought of replying back to the 2 ladies on craigslist who are interested in coming to see Hannah's crib and matress that I have for sell" Ok. So you get the point. Maybe one day when my life slows down and life goes back to being somewhat normal, I'll write a book. Maybe it will be titled, "If you give a Mother a thought..."